Steamy magazines may violate sex offenders' probation

[Champ]

Miami, Florida -- Authorities are sending convicted sex offenders to jail on probation violations for having racy magazines such as Maxim, in the latest crackdown on probationers in the state.

Officers searched the Miami home of Andrew Calderon on May 18 and found a sexy calendar, a racy poster, and a few copies of Maxim magazine. Calderon, 23, was jailed for six days before a judge ordered his release.

Corrections officials said Calderon, who was on probation for the sexual battery of a mentally disabled relative, committed a violation by having "sexually stimulating" material.

But in court papers, Calderon's lawyer, Mel Black, described Maxim as far from obscene.

A judge will decide next month whether Calderon's probation should be revoked or extended, or whether the magazines, calendar and poster were innocent.


http://www.tampabays10.com/weird/weird_article.aspx?storyid=16253

[RedCloud]

1. Make no buts about it...

Some Puritan will take offense at thee.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Cue the punishist posse. 5... 4... 3... (nt)

[Heidi]

3. Enter thought police, stage right. (nt)

[Dave Reynolds]

4. Sexy, racy, steamy,

the reporter broke out the thesaurus for that one, did he not?

[Kathleen04]

5. If they're on probation

it seems to me that the law has determined that they've already "done their time" and if that's the case then they should be able to resume their lives.

One could argue that maybe the amount of time in prison for sex offenders is too minimal or whatever, but if they're out of prison then it seems to me that their probation is only to monitor that they don't commit a second non-consensual offense...not to monitor their *legal* sexual activities...